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Certification in Data Protection: New and Old Issues Concerning Certifiers’ Liabilities Journal Artikel

Anna Rita Popoli

European Data Protection Law Review, Jahrgang 6 (2020), Ausgabe 3, Seite 390 - 406

The article examines the various forms of liabilities that accredited certification bodies may incur in operating in the field of data protection, while also trying to offer some suggestions to improve the harmonisation in the pathological phase of litigation in certification mechanisms. Keywords: GDPR, Data Protection, Certification, Contractual Liability, Tort Liability, ADR/ODR


Tort and Data Protection Law: Journal Artikel

Are There Any Lessons to Be Learnt?

Leon Trakman, Robert Walters, Bruno Zeller

European Data Protection Law Review, Jahrgang 5 (2019), Ausgabe 4, Seite 500 - 519

The development and evolution of data protection law is not fully realised. One challenge that has emerged is the recognition of a tort for violating a person’s personal information contrary to data protection law. The issue is that courts have found it difficult to determine and assess the harm caused to the data subject. The courts in the United Kingdom (UK) and Canada have recently developed a tort for infringing privacy in personal data. What has emerged is that courts in those two countries have begun to establish some key principles to underpin a tort violating privacy, by providing guidance on measuring the ensuing harm. That tort is also developing in the United States. This article argues that other common law jurisdictions, notably Australia, should consider going down the same pathway, by establishing a privacy tort over the Internet. Such a tort in data protection will provide a higher level of control to data subjects over their personal data and deter entities from misusing that data. However, that tort may fail to protect data subjects from the misuse of their personal data if the law requires harm to eventuate, as is required by the tradition tort of privacy. This must be considered with caution because, unlike traditional notions of a tort in privacy, a privacy violation of over the Internet may take weeks, months or years to identify. Contrarily, tort law has been effective in reducing and deterring negligence in privacy related cases, strengthening the rationale for a tort in personal data over the Internet. Keywords: Australia, Data Protection, European Union, Personal Data, Tort, United Kingdom

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